Removing adhesive from concrete

willness33

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Took up a shitty parquet floor that was glued to the concrete. We need to get up all the adhesive because we'd like to either paint or just seal the concrete in the "bar cabin". What's going to be the best way to do this?. Heat gun and scraper may work but very labor intensive and time restrictive.
 
Short of mechanical means with a grinder, you can use a solvent that will be messy and gooey but get the job done. I have SoyGel by Franmar at my work. I can ship some to you, but you can probably find similar locally. Put it down and let it sit, scrape and let it sit, repeat as needed.
 
77GreenMachine said:
Short of mechanical means with a grinder, you can use a solvent that will be messy and gooey but get the job done. I have SoyGel by Franmar at my work. I can ship some to you, but you can probably find similar locally. Put it down and let it sit, scrape and let it sit, repeat as needed.
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I think a grinder will just heat up and re liquify the glue and become a smeary cloggy mess. Not to mention the dust. I'm ok with a solvent. I'll search for soygel locally. Thanks for the tip.
 
The soygel will be your best bet. Or any citrus based adhesive remover. I should have been more clear about the grinder, there are special attachments for floor grinders that are specifically for coatings and adhesive removal. I have guys that $2-$4/sqft doing that.
 
77GreenMachine said:
The soygel will be your best bet. Or any citrus based adhesive remover. I should have been more clear about the grinder, there are special attachments for floor grinders that are specifically for coatings and adhesive removal. I have guys that $2-$4/sqft doing that.
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I'm looking into the grinder option also. Definitely not paying $4 a square foot just to turn around and paint it. I'll pick it off with a screwdriver first lol
 
Home Depot rents the diamond bladed grinding head and floor buffer you need to do this. It’s about $125 a day and will clear about 100 sf per hour. You won’t have much dust as you have to keep the floor damp for it to work properly. I used my own buffer and a spray bottle , but they rent a buffer that has a built in water tank.

Once you’re done with the grinding you will need to mop several times to get the floor clean enough to apply your desired finish. We used V440 Benjamin Moore two part epoxy at our store and it has held up well to commercial foot traffic so far.
 
Right now I'm using a diamond cup on the angle grinder and have a dust collector on it. It's a slow process that may get sped up with a larger rental at some point in the next week or 2. But then again I'm only doing it for maybe 30 min a day before I get reallocated to another task.
 
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willness33 said:
at some point in the next week or 2.
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:eek:

You know....I'm at the age now, where I would consider calling Jose and hose B to come do the job in 2 hrs for a few hundos as opposed to deal with it for week(s)
 
I can do a square foot in 1-1.5 min. That's taking off adhesive and a dirty top layer down to brand new looking concrete. It looks so good me just may end up using a high gloss clear sealer on it.
 
willness33 said:
I can do a square foot in 1-1.5 min. That's taking off adhesive and a dirty top layer down to brand new looking concrete. It looks so good me just may end up using a high gloss clear sealer on it.
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You should come check out my basement. Ground, stained, and clearcoated. Also, I fully agree with @CasterTroy about it not being worth the effort.
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Your glue may come up quicker from the sounds of how the hand grinder is working for you.
 

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It's actually not going that bad doing it the hard way. I have a while to do this since this is just a side project at the house. 10-15 min here and there and it'll be knocked out long before my june deadline.
 
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